PROVIDENCE – The Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area unemployment rate declined 0.4 percentage points to 3.4% in June, not seasonally adjusted, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Thursday.
Unemployment rates were lower in June than a year earlier in 294 of the 389 metropolitan areas in the United States, according to the BLS.
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The number of unemployed in the Providence metro area declined 12.7% to 23,428 in June. Meanwhile the civilian labor force decreased 0.1% year over year to 693,415 people.
The 3.4% unemployment rate in the metro area was 0.1 percentage point higher than the 3.3% unemployment rate in Rhode Island in June. The national unemployment rate for the month was 3.8%.
Nonfarm employment in the Providence metro increased 1% year over year to 607,100 workers in June.
Other local metro June employment figures:
- The unemployment rate in the New Bedford metro area was 4.6% in June, a 0.7 percentage point decline year over year. Nonfarm employment totaled 68,300 people in June, a 1% increase year over year
- The unemployment rate in the Norwich-New London, Conn.-Westerly metro area declined 0.5 percentage points year over year to 3.7% in June. Nonfarm employment declined 0.3% year over year to 132,700
